Level 10: Forest of Rocks (SEASON-ENDER PART 3)

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All of the avatars from different guilds surrounded Les-Skaly. Marple and Vitulus0314 commanded everyone’s healers and buffers,

“All of you, cast [Half-Ethers Minna]!”

Every buffer and healer from different guilds started casting EP-halving buff spell, enabling their fighters, casters and gunners to perform more Ether skills. Marple instructed the buffers and healers,

“Move backward and start increasing casting ranges!”

Marple and Vitulus0314 cast [Range Expansion Lv2] on other buffers and healers to increase their casting coverage. Evyll came late, then he cast a rare skill called [Blessed Curse: Plentiful Ethers]. The rare skill gave Evyll a medium-sized Ether aura that will allow anyone around him regain Ether at a fast rate.

“Rangers, cover Evyll at all costs! He has to be running around for all of us casters, healers and buffers to regain Ether fast!” Marple bossed around.

The four gunners namely Makabosog, Masher321, RavenSythe, and Skrillegrillah ran away from the angered behemoth as ordered by Marple of PraetorsPH.

“Seems that we’ll be protecting someone who’s gonna run around like a fool but showering Ether on our mages eh?” RavenSythe arrogantly asked Skrillegrillah.

“Yeah, though he’s the one so far who have that skill” Skrillegrillah answered.

Skrillegrillah suddenly picked up her fellow humanoid party members like kittens, and cussed at them,

“We won’t make it alive if we run like that!”

The rusty brown robot avatar dashed back to the casters’ formation and prepared their weapons for the next attack. Kruth Weeagasher verbally empowered every melee character in the scene,

“We’re going to cut him down like a tree! Make sure you’re all pumped up!”

Marple replicated her [“Buffers Must Cast” Macro-Strip] and handed them over to other buff-type characters, including Vitulus0314, Evyll, and Arume.

The [Macro-Strip] “Buffers Must Cast” contained the sequence of what skills are meant to be cast on their targets. The automated action queue comprised of [Grasshopper Reflex Lv2], [Falconeye Accuracy Lv2], [Gale Agility Lv2], and [Efficient Splice Lv2], which are all handy for all attacking classes.

“Perform the macro now!” Marple commanded every buffer around her.

The casters buffed everyone in the way, enhancing their combat performance. However, the giant tree monster roared loud that it caught raiding parties stunned by its noise. Hatsumi brought out her [Meteor Hammer], inserted [Electro-Thumper Anima] on her weapon and the spiked ball expelled a shocking aura. Evyll casted the same set of buffs on her, and reminded her,

“Don’t die out there!”

“Trust me!” Hatsumi smiled at Evyll.

“PROVIDE COVER FIRE US, YOU SICK PUPPIES! I’M JOINING TOO!” Lamar Shellburster ordered the rest of the casters and rangers, and joined Hatsumi as well.

Lamar drew his [Fiery Gladius] out and he distracted Les-Skaly. The four-legged tree-like gargantuan creature rushed towards Lamar Shellburster and tried to eat him. Hatsumi whipped the last surviving bio-mechanical thigh-mounted cannon with her [Electrified Meteor Hammer], effectively thumping the weapon for good. However, her weapon got stuck at the remains of the thigh-mounted bio-mechanical cannon, and she was dragged along by the monster. Lamar Shellburster leaped high and attempted to slash the monster’s sentient branches on its chin.

Rennin’s melee group drove towards the rampaging monster and StrarfShine leaped high, and set to whack Les-Skaly’s head with her Mjolnir Hammer. She hammered the monster’s forehead, and brought down a painful electric jolt on the opponent. Les-Skaly dropped Lamar Shellburster to the ground and tried to trample him. Estorille unleashed another swarm of missiles onto the ailing creature, preventing the boss’ attempt to trample her fellow avatar.

“Get on my back, Lamar!” Estorille enticed the RedNext’s leader.

Hatsumi swung her way up, and dropped towards the monster’s back unarmed. She only have her [Hammer] and whacked the defective “tower organ” with all her might. StrarfShine noticed Hatsumi and she also helped in destroying the largest part of Les-Skaly. Rennin and Roy-kun jumped high and began destroying the tower-like organ from the top.

Back at the caster formation, RavenSythe, Skrillegrillah, and other snipers began firing at the head of Les-Skaly with their remaining flame rounds. However, the casters from Mikunopolis started disappearing. Arume ran towards the ailing Les-Skaly and unleashed a strong stream of flames onto the monster’s face from her palms. The monster’s face started to melt, but unknowingly, she damaged StrarfShine’s armored back. After performing the [Streamlinea Ignis] Ether spell, Arume tried to log-off but the burning monster simply chomped her upper half, leaving her lower body logging off.

“If we try to log-off now, with any mob around... We’ll return back to the game dead the next time we log in. That’s just... That’s just disturbing!!!” Estorille voiced out the horror she saw.

This whole Les-Skaly battle lasted for nearly three hours, and the chance for the players to obtain premium cash content is dwindling. One hour more before the monster regenerates. One hour more till their efforts go to waste. One hour more to pull off a miracle...

The “tower” organ of Les-Skaly bloodily exploded, rendering the monster in perpetual rage and any subtle monster-climbing tactic will not work anymore. Les-Skaly shook off everyone on top of his body, and violently swiped Lamar Shellburster back to the casters’ line.

In the nick of time, other members of oppossing guilds united as one, led by Rennin of BusouShinkishi guild. Eisen leaped high and performed his [Brullenkomet Nox] spear skill on the scorching head of Les-Skaly. Rennin and Hatsya performed alternating flash-steps while attacking the maddened monster from behind. Rennin motivated Hatsya,

“Hatsya! We can do this, we’re both lightning fencers for now!”

“Hope this works, Rennin!” Hatsya bantered back.

The two lightning rapier-users dashed towards the enraged monster’s hind legs and attempted to do [Cent-Ennui Fulme] on its feet. The monster’s hind legs suddenly ignited while its disturbing flesh is exposed and shedding green fluid all over the forest.

“We’ve taken down its hind legs!” Hatsya reported to the rest of the raid party.

The gunners of PraetorsPH, Justice4Wazeroth and RedNext gave up shooting the dying behemoth, and instead foolishly tried to cut off the front legs.

Hatsumi snagged Hatsya’s [World Megaphone] and commanded all magic knight-like avatars,

“DO THE [RADIA IGNIS] AND [RADIA FULGUR] SLASH NOW!”

“Not everyone here’s playing magic knight, popstar!” Kruth Weeagasher denied.

Only Crio and Hatsya pulled off the two [Radia ether slashes] on both bleeding hind legs, and they successfully dismembered the behemoth. Hitomi grabbed RavenSythe’s sniper rifle and gunned down the eyes of Les-Skaly with perfect precision.

Unexpectedly, LeijiBiaoqiang and his squad of nearly-identical bot characters spawned right at the battlefield. Leiji’s bots were programmed to foolishly mow down the legs of Les-Skaly as if they treated it as one large-sized regular mob. The chin-mounted redwood branch-like tendrils grabbed two of Leiji’s bots and were devoured by Les-Skaly himself.

In the nick of time, a dog-headed sniper in a motorcycle snatched LeijiBiaoqiang away from his dying bot squad members. It turned out to be AnathemaKorlov herself and she reprimanded the young bot master,

“I freaking told you not to fight with your bot army, you pipsqueak!”

“I... I... I can’t help it, Anathema! I need money out of that monster!” LeijiBiaoqiang pleaded.

“What will you do if the GMs find out suspicious concurrent connections from your home then?”

“Tell them that I play from internet cafe?”

“You’re really a daring fool, Leiji!”

The two headed back to the casters’ formation. Far behind the casters’ formation, a green gecko-headed humanoid, named Geckkin, aimed his bulky [Prototype Gravity Cannon] at the head of Les-Skaly at extreme distance and he mumbled first,

“Ren, if you’re defeating this monster right now... Thank me later for the miracle I’ll do!”

Geckkin fired the [Prototype Gravity Cannon] and a high-impact, high-velocity bullet violently distorted Les-Skaly’s face.

Marple was shocked at the monster’s disfigured face and babbled,

“S-some loner dealt an epic damage on that monster? W-who could that be?”

Hatsya, Rennin, and their fellow guildmates were even horrified at the damaged monster’s face. The monster they fought, Les-Skaly, was reduced into a mere bear in a disturbing treant fashion. It cried in severe pain, all thanks to its bounty-hungry boss hunters. Hatsumi seemed to be connected to the monster as she calmly approached the creature and tried to hug its leg wounds. The monster purred calmly, and its chin tendrils pulled her upward. Eisen suddenly trolled Roy-kun and Hatsya,

“Oh lover boys! Do something with that crazed girl before she gets Mami-fied!”

Roy-kun drew his [Hatsukaze Katana] and he performed a [Vacuum Slash] on the monster’s neck. Hatsya jumped higher then cut down the tendrils. He threw Hatsumi to the ground, and he was instead swallowed by the deceiving boss, even though it didn’t have sufficient means to eat any avatar properly. Hatsumi cried at Roy-kun’s chest, after seeing Hatsya being swallowed by the boss.

The operatic situation escalated further that there was still one poisonous thorn-spitting cannon intact. The lone bio-mechanical cannon gunned down everyone close to its dying body. Roy-kun suffered five shots at its nape, spine and two on his buttocks. Eisen’s left eye, both knees and his torso were also hit by the rampaging spike cannon. Hotaru mysteriously died, as many of the spikes were fired on his face. Crio suffered severe poison damage, as his chest and neck were gunned down as well. Estorille and Rennin died due to her motorcycle’s explosion, all thanks to the cannon that went amok on their party.

Eisen suddenly stabbed Hatsumi, Crio and Roy-kun, then used their remaining life force for an unnamed Dark Desperation Technique. He rushed towards the monster’s underbelly and spiralled himself upward, forcibly drilling through the monster’s body and ended it with a spear throw to the bloody ground. The [Dark Ox Tongue Spear] suddenly caused a purple energy explosion beneath the dying creature.

Meanwhile, inside Les-Skaly’s body, Hatsya is still alive, though suffering in poison debuff, and living with 23% hit points. He tried to climb out from the dying creature before he die along with the monster due to Eisen’s attacks. Hatsya thought to himself,

“I’ll die anyway right here... Time for me to use that Ether skill!”

Hatsya pressed the monster’s innards with his palm and cast [Judgelight Repelling]. A beam of light penetrated through the monster’s thick skin, coincidently exploded alongside the dark energy explosion caused by Eisen’s desperate offensive skill. In the end, Hatsya died inside Les-Skaly with a last-ditch effort.

Unexpectedly, Arnval, ClaraEukrante, and AobaAnoaAndrea, the aerial mount owners of BusouShinkishi guild, pulled off the last strike by crazily ramming their vehicles to the monster’s disfigured head.

Everyone who took part in the battle received a mysterious [Reward Pack PDB-001] box item and they received a call from the mysterious girl from the frigate above Kanpeki Sekai,

“T-Thank you... We’ll be deploying there tomorrow. B-be sure to drop in and enjoy our stuff, guys!”

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Four o’clock in the afternoon, right after the ending of the first World Boss battle, Ren yawned loud at his room. Ren complained to himself while rubbing his back,

“Owwww! That battle surely didn’t let us go for a while!”

Ren left his house and met Roy at the public hallway. Roy aired out his frustration,

“That wasted a lot of my time, Ren!”

“Me too, I didn’t know that fighting that monster will take like three hours or more!”

“Worse, we all died fighting that monster though. But hey, I died with a girl” Roy smirked.

“And so am I!” Ren retorted.

Unexpectedly awkward, their moms pulled them back home...

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At Henry’s room, Henry stretched his arms upward, yawned a bit, and playfully re-enacted his in-game avatar’s dying animation in his bed. He spoke to himself softly,

“Pops, that’s one long, well-drawn battle we all have there... Though that made me really tired...”

Henry sighed and fell asleep for a moment. While lying in bed, pretending as his avatar Hatsya, Henry mumbled,

“Our game really gave us a feeling of reenacting different Japanimation action drama sequences, dad. Though, one thing bothered me, why didn’t our team make a boss monster first, and instead use a fan’s work first?”

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Mikhail moved away from his computer for a moment, and went to his terrace laughing madly to himself,

“That’s really possible. Use your friends as sacrifices! Though I’ll find that personally retarded if I’ll do that on my friends offline too” Mikhail sighed for a moment, and mumbled further,

“For some reason, nearly everyone else except me cared for Hatsumi. Why is that? Probably I suspect most of them having some form of connection between them”

Mikhail’s mom heard his mumbling and candidly asked him,

“Who are you talking to, son?”

“Nah, just something happened in one of the shows I’m watching”

“Mikhail, I hope you’re not getting carried away too much on whatever Eastern media you’re consuming” Mikhail’s mom reminded him, then she went back to her room.

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Hatsumi sighed after receiving the World Boss Raid reward pack, and contemplated her in-game incident,

“Is that really a feeling of being a damsel in distress? That every boy and every man will give up their lives to save you? Though I didn’t expect that Eisen will kill my avatar later on”

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Carlito, Ren’s father, was glad to at least play NOAH with him, even for few minutes with a decent effort against the world boss. Carlito e-mailed Ren,

[Ren, this is daddy Carlito!

I’m the lizard guy who took down the bear’s face so bad.

Please, don’t tell mom that I’m no longer just working as a linesman.

Someone from something called K-Corp offered me a job involving

this online gaming craze. I’m playing bounty hunter online, and per

Banning Kill I make, I get three to five-figure bounty for it]

Carlito remembered his family in the Philippines, and is still bothered about his second awkward job.

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Roy went back to his room, and began sketching the unbearable scene of carnage portrayed in the Les-Skaly world boss event. He drew his dying in-game friends first, and his avatar in the middle.

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Orion calmly asked the Forum Team to unlock and unhide all of the Les-Skaly-related articles and threads. Unexpectedly, Orion received a phone call from someone in Japan,

“Good evening, Kanlaon-san!”

“Kanzaki-sama, what is it?” Orion calmly asked.

“I have observed your game’s progress. So far, your game moderators are doing their jobs well. However, there are those cunning offenders like that AushMariano420 of yours who evaded several bans in different online games, and now, we’re now eyeing on a certain group of botters. So, I, president of the Kanzaki Multimedia Corporation, have decided to beef up your security by appointing Reapers. Those Reapers are provided with seemingly-rare-grade gear, but are actually GM weapons built to instantly ban any offending avatar”

“Hirohito Kanzaki, who are you to commandeer my game’s future?”

“I am one of your kickstarters, Orion. Never forget. I’ll be sending someone again to watch over NOAH tomorrow”

The Japanese guy on the other line giggled for a moment, and he praised,

“So far, I am impressed at your first World event, it gave me much drama”

Marietta and others overheard their conversation, so Marietta asked first,

“The Kanzaki is now gaining administrative footing in our NOAH project now?”

“Yes. I felt like I asked help from devil-tailed angel investors. Let’s just hope that the Kanzakis know what the hell are they doing. If not, Eden might untap something we may not all know as we speak...”

Level 10: Forest of Rocks (Part 2)

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The whole attacking forces comprised of different parties and guilds were commanded by GM-Galmann,

“From what I’ve heard the monster is supposed to come out today and--”

Unexpectedly, birds dwelling in the city mysteriously made alarming noises, and they flew away from the trees on the towers. All of the avatars, and NPC characters were alerted by a new female NPC character,

“This is the Gold Caravan Frigate captain speaking! We’re detecting high dimensional disturbance occurring at your area! We can’t get down! We can’t get down and risks our goods by the damages it’ll bring! Defeat it at once!”

Avatars looked at the sky and they saw a gold-chromed blocky spaceship fluttering around the city.

Ten non-player-controllable starfighters came out from the Gold Caravan’s hangars and tried finding the source of the high dimensional disturbance. However, they instead encountered a giant fleshy mushroom-like structure erected on the hill. The disturbing mushroom structure pulsated rapidly and its stem shot out blood-red thorny tendrils on the attacking starfighters

“L-Les Skaly’s h-here! Don’t land right away, Mariko!” one of the starfighter pilots uttered, just before his ship exploded after being impaled by the fleshy mushroom structure.

Three D-Hogs, and four two-person Spider Tanks of ‘PraetorsPH’ guild, five D-Hogs of ‘Justice4Wazeroth’ guild, and a lone D-Hog of ‘RedsNext’ guild, went outside the Walled Metropolis and approached the mysterious mushroom structure first...

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Orion smiled at the moment that the Les-Skaly event is triggered. He immediately ordered the forum team,

“Hide any topics about Les-Skaly to avoid game spoilers! I don’t care now if there are like ten percent of the playing population knew about this creature! I want them to practice teamwork! Let’s avert the pitfall for once!”

The forum moderator named Gazelle was surprised at her boss’ orders,

“W-wait, why are we deleting them now?”

Orion sharply replied at her,

“HIDE ALL LES-SKALY-RELATED THREADS NOW!”

Gazelle and the forum team went back to their terminals, and hid all of the threads referencing Les-Skaly. All blogs that featured Les-Skaly were told to lock their blogs for this hour, in attempts to make the players figure out the tactics themselves with limited information available.

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The five D-Hog armed ground carriers gunned down the pustules of the mushroom structure. One of the pustules got destroyed fast and the spiked tendrils began lashing the approaching Justice4Wazeroth guild’s D-Hogs.

Inside the red Justice4Wazeroth’ D-Hog, a cartoony adult human donning an old-school paladin costume with red heart cape, named Kruth Weeagasher, radioed all of his members,

“Our team will go outside and take out that bulbing mushroom right at its head, while the guys on the turrets, and our drivers here will circle around and gun that bastard down, got it?”

One of his members named Lepus Legsnare, a rabbit-eared anime-styled armored schoolgirl, suddenly yelled at her leader,

“NOAH Forums have hidden all threads involving Les-Skaly, sir!”

The rest of her team members and their leader were shocked at her news. The bald Afro-American armored soldier complained,

“What do we do now? Not all of us have the decent knowledge about that boss now!”

Unexpectedly, a Japanese native speaker from another guild brought up a supposedly uplifting speech,

“Whoever’s in charge of this universe has his reason for such a loss. We all have to cooperate! We’re all fighting that monster without sufficient intelligence, all we can do now is take a risk! There’s nothing wrong about dying!”

While the Japanese player tried to motivate some of the players, the Afro-American armored soldier raged,

“What the fuck is that Miku-Ching-Chong saying!”

“Yeah, what’s with the ching-chong Obama-toned speech!” uttered by other Justice4Wazeroth member.

“I think, she’s trying to say something in a calm manner-” Kruth Weeagasher instead appreciated his fellow player’s effort.

All of a sudden, the mushroom tower’s pores spat out missiles that resembled severed pustule-infested arms with nitroglycerin fluids homing towards their vehicles. The red Justice4Wazeroth D-Hog got hit by three grotesque, explosive hand missiles, and one of their turrets were heavily-damaged by the hand missiles.

“D-do not shoot the hand missiles point bla--!” advised by one of the avatars in the damaged turret until the explosion killed him.

“All of the D-Hogs! CHANGE FORMATION! TURRET CREW, KEEP FIRING. WE’LL ROLL OUT!” Kruth Weeagasher commanded all of his members in desperation.

The five Justice4Wazeroth-owned D-Hogs dispersed away from their initial formation and unloaded the armed team members, while they gun down oncoming projectiles. The PraetorsPH’ D-Hogs did a drive-by attack on the mushroom tower’s pustules, while their Spider Tanks distracted the spiked tendrils. The Justice4Wazeroth members attempted to destroy the pustules from the ground. However, some of their members were accidentally trampled by a PraetorsPH-owned Spider Tank.

Meanwhile at the RedsNext’s D-Hog, Lamar Shellburster, a nearly-realistic human avatar wearing  red powered combat suit, radioed the PraetorsPH’ guild’s leader,

“Your guys have trampled my allies!”

“Oh really?” spoken by EngLehetEkin in its native tongue.

“I may not understand you but you guys KILLED MY FELLOW AMERICANS!” Lamar Shellburster vented back.

“You’re all idiots anyway, didn’t plan any shit!” EngLehetEkin cussed back.

“GO TO HELL!” Lamar Shellburster got annoyed.

“Same to you, son of a whore!” EngLehetEkin retorted vulgarly.

Mariella Shardshooter, their elven-themed archer, wearing simple white shirt and denim pants, asked her leader,

“Who the hell is he?”

“Some arrogant Filipino leader, he cussed that we didn’t coordinate our attacks well. I hope they die first” Lamar Shellburster angrily answered Mariella Shardshooter.

She went out from their armored vehicle and tried aiding the surviving Justice4Wazeroth avatars.

“Wait! Where are you going!” Lamar Shellburster yelled at his comrade.

The PraetorsPH’s spider tanks went closer to the Les-Skaly’s mushroom tower and gunned down more of its pustules. One of the pilots, Merkator the dwarven engineer, asked their guild leader,

“We’ll keep fighting even without buffs?”

“Do whatever we can, chap!” PraetorPH’s leader, EngLehetEkin, answered.

Inside the PraetorsPH’s Desert Hog, EngLehetEkin, the slender semi-realistic human gangster resembling a certain pop idol, briefed his team members,

“If any of those Americans attacked you guys, fire a [Red Flare], and our anti-PK team will bombard them!”

“EngLehet, do you think those Americans really hate us?” questioned by Marple, the anime-styled Nomuroid cleric.

“They are already mad at us, even way before NOAH came to be!” EngLehetEkin answered.

EngLehetEkin drew his [+5 Flesh-cleaving Voltaic Vampiric Estoc], and continued his briefing,

“Should our tanks reach below 15 percent, let’s all escape and continue our battle on the ground! That means, all of you clerics, healers, and the likes, buff us now at the moment we leave our mounts!”

“How about we let our second D-Hog be the place for clerics?” suggested by Kawahara of the second PraetorsPH-owned D-Hog.

“And then turn our clerics into gunners too?” EngLehetEkin asked back with a resisting feel.

EngLehetEkin breathed deeply and angrily yelled at Kawahara,

“And make them sitting ducks?”

Back at the foot of the Les-Skaly’s living mushroom tower, Mariella Shardshooter charged her [+3 Metal-cracking Composite Bow of the Phoenix] and aimed at one of the bigger pustules. She fired her armor-piercing bow to the big pustule. Her first shot made it through, and ignited the creature.

“OPEN FIRE, ALL OF--!” Mariella ordered the rest of Justice4Wazeroth and RedNext members but Les-Skaly’s bear head appeared and ate her lower body, rendering her dead. The ranged avatars of the two guilds immediately gunned down the head of the boss but it seemed to be heavily-resilient to projectiles. One of the PraetorsPH teased other raiding avatars,

“Oh crap, you guys whine like you’re playing in Aincraaaa--!”

Unexpectedly, the boastful PraetorsPH avatar got caught by the spiky tendrils of Les-Skaly, and chomped its lower body off.

The battle didn’t go as planned, as Les-Skaly rose from the ground, annihilating the whole three-guild raiding party.

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The fallen members of the three guilds revived at the city square that served as their spawn point. Kruth Weeagasher brought out a [World Megaphone] item and he announced,

“All right, if anyone of you have fire and electric-element weaponry, you’ll be able to inflict more damage on the monster!”

“That means, your armed mounts should have fire and electric-based ammunition too if you’re on artillery role” Mariella Shardshooter joined.

Every other avatar around them changed their weapons, but only very few have the gear to greatly damage Les-Skaly. However, an [Alchemy Truck] owned by a guild named “Order of Waning Light” spawned behind the Justice4Wazeroth group. The middle-aged Felpurrian truck driver ushered,

“Get your 250 rounds of flame rounds for only 2500 credits!”

At the back of the [Alchemy Truck], another Nomuroid avatar hollered,

“Let’s all work as one nation! For everyone who buys 250 flame rounds will also get 25 bottles of Insta-Etherize Blaze for melee users!”

Masher321, the Hamster Marine, bought 500 [flame rounds] and obtained 50 [Insta-Etherize Blaze] from Amuu the blue-haired Nomuroid Armsmith. Amuu called Masher321,

“Hey hamster boy! Mind if I let you use these?”

Amuu showed a two gatling vulcans with different attributes. One gatling vulcan, [Amuu’s Gatling Vulcan of the Phoenix], can turn ordinary ammunition into fire-laden shots. The other gatling vulcan, [Amuu’s Rapid Gatling Vulcan of the Basilisk], has a 10% chance of poisoning its target and fires faster than the former fiery gun.

“Both of these weapons are good, but I’ll take the Phoenix one” Masher321 asked Amuu.

“Sure!” Amuu affirmed, and she handed over the fire-imbued Gatling Vulcan to Masher321.

Makabosog approached Amuu as well, and he bought the rapid poison-imbued variant of the Gatling Vulcan for 25,000 credits. Amuu was bothered,

“You don’t have to pay me that, Maka. I can always make those guns”

“No, you have it. You can buy more modifiers with my money” Makabosog offered back.

“Nah, just use it!” Amuu nagged Makabosog back.

The two critter avatars went back to BusouShinkishi guild. OugonSenshi18, the super-deformed anime avatar in gold armor approached Rennin and he asked,

“Have you seen someone named Skrillegrillah, the rusty brown robot?”

“Nope, but I think there might be people at the northern section of this city” Rennin replied.

“Okay then” OugonSenshi18 ended their conversation and ran towards the northern section of the city.

While many are busy gearing up, Les-Skaly got up from the ground and it began destroying Kanpeki Sekai’s walls with its thigh-mounted pore cannons and its disturbing pustule-laden arm missiles. Kruth Weeagasher announced with the help of the [World Megaphone],

“Everyone with vehicles, proceed outside the Southern wall now! We’ll take that critter down with all of our flame shots!”

PraetorsPH guild took the frontlines with three Desert Hogs, and four Spider Tanks again; Justice4Wazeroth stopped behind the PraetorsPH’s Desert Hog lines with five of their Desert Hogs as well; The lone Desert Hog of the RedsNext drove first and tried to gun down Les-Skaly from below. Lamar Shellburster warned everyone around with his own [World Megaphone],

“We may also take him down from below!”

Meanwhile, Arnval carried Maryann, and the bunny thief complained,

“H-Hey, what’s that for, Arnval!”

“Trust me, this ain’t Aincrad for all of us to die this instant!” Arnval tried to comfort Maryann.

“T-this isn’t in the original plan! You’ll pay for my experience loss, Arnval!” Maryann yapped further, only to be thrown right above Les-Skaly’s ‘tower organ’

Maryann equipped her [Thunder Bear Claws] and she rapidly gashed the Tower’s eye until she was able to tear the pupil apart.

“I’m about to disable its eyes!” Maryann hollered the rest of the aerial troops.

Eleven player-made, three-gun [Patrol Airboats] from different guilds began taking down the “tower organ” with their repeating laser cannons, pneumatic ballistic cannons, and incendiary sabot cannons.

“W-where did these ships come from?” Arnval asked, as she saw the ships coming towards the large creature.

The [Patrol Airboats] actually belonged to the [Mikunopolis] guild. At the upper deck of the leading Mikunopolis [Patrol Airboat], a purple-haired anime girl dressed in some magical girl costume named Arume tried to speak in English,

“Everyone, go all out! Tanks, destroy the leg turrets! Aerials, hit the tower! Footsoldiers, strike the face!”

The Mikunopolis’ Patrol Airboats spreaded out and alternately fired their incendiary sabot rounds onto Les-Skaly’s pustules. Les-Skaly’s eyes suddenly expelled a gas that killed all of the airships’ engines, and turned few trees into its allies. Maryann died right on top of the living tower due to concentrated gas that it expelled.

Inside the lead Mikunopolis’ Patrol Airboat, Arume and twelve more of her anime-styled allies suddenly jumped out from their crashing ship. The purple-haired magical girl was surprised,

“Les-Skaly has those engine-breaking attacks?”

“That’s one real war for you, Arume!” Eri-Sis, the red-haired swordsman, replied as they fall towards Les-Skaly’s back.

“Everyone with ranged weapons, we’ll gun down its weak spots!” Eri-Sis commanded her fellow guild members.

Meanwhile, eight of Ere-Sis’ male guild members plummeted towards Les-Skaly’s back, only to be whipped out. The girls of Mikunopolis guild tried their best in destroying all of the defensive pustules of the Les-Skaly’s fleshy tower.

Eight 25-feet-tall treants rushed towards the multiple guilds’ Desert Hog blockades and toppled them like tin cans, violently disembarking its riders.

“T-this is bad, everyone! We have to kill the treants first before we get the boss!” Lamar Weeagasher radioed everyone with his [World Megaphone].

Unexpectedly, the Raging Hearts’ Desert Hog rushed forward, gunning down the treants with flame rounds from their plasma turrets. Hotaru casted Emberfall on a small cluster of Treants and scorched them down.

“Get back to your vehicles and mow ‘em down!” Hitomi commanded everyone else using her [World Megaphone]

Lamar Weeagasher and his fellow guild captains summoned their moderately-damaged Desert Hogs.

“We’re never goin’ down without a fight!!!” Lamar Weeagasher screamed, as he madly drove his damaged red D-Hog, with his guild members rapidly gunned down three of the treants with flame-imbued ammunition. PraetorsPH’s spider tanks tackled one of the treants and gunned it down while dog-piling the forest monster.

“Err... that’s a bit low but it works!” one of the spider tank pilots commented while dismayed at their dog-piling barrage tactic.

All of the defensive pustules were destroyed, rendering the tower to fail its regenerative tasks on Les-Skaly’s parts. The thigh cannons at the monster’s feet formed up and it began spitting poisonous thorns on its attackers.

ClaraEukrante, AobaAnoaAndrea, Arnval flew towards the fleshy tower and gunned the eye down. Arnval informed everyone,

“We’re about to take down the tower for good!”

Below Les-Skaly, Estorille equipped her [Ursapanzer Missile Pod] and her [Anti-Tank Rifle] and attempted to break the monster’s underbelly with her armor-piercing rounds. After five shots, the monster’s flesh came out and she unloaded all of her missiles onto the exposed part, damaging Les-Skaly further.

At the sides of the monster, the Raging Hearts’ Desert Hog ran out of flame rounds, and Hitomi warned everyone inside,

“We’ve exhausted all of our bullets, I’ll ram this guy now!”

Hitomi drove their armored vehicle towards one of Les-Skaly’s legs, then her fellow members jumped off from their vehicle. The thigh cannons of the monster fired a barrage of thorns on their vehicle, only to find out that its passengers escaped.

Masher321 and Makabosog took down two of the thigh cannons with their purchased weapons, then Skrillegrillah and RavenSythe joined into their fireteam.

“Hey critters, keep destroying the cannons. Leave the head to us!” Skrillegrillah ordered the two animal-themed marines.

EngLehetEkin and his surviving PraetorsPH comrades, except Mercator and Marple, foolishly rushed towards Les-Skaly, only to be grabbed by its sentient redwood branches on its chin, and were devoured like chocolate.

Online:\Undisclosed Location>

Inside Eden’s floating pyramid, Eden is amused at the attackers,

“Damn, I can’t believe it! They’re defeating it!”

He looked at the fallen treants, and the spider tanks sitting on top of their decaying bodies.

“Grandmaster, I like their sense of unity. They’re willing to throw everything away to defeat our monster” Eden spoke to himself.

Unexpectedly, the Grandmaster approached him from behind and spoke backm

“I think I’ve bent the game too much, that we made vehicular combat vital... Though it gave me a good picture of humanity’s undying hope in spite of losing their trump cards” the Grandmaster replied.

“Really? I thought that a World Boss battle will be like a group of people will be standing around while pinning our pet to death, hurting only a handful b-but... I liked how your team dealt with it!” Eden was amazed.

Level 10: Forest of Rocks (Part 1)

Offline:\Sinagtala Relocation Site\Sinagtala Tenements>

Saturday at the break of dawn, Ren woke up and dressed up casually as a bread peddler in Manang Abe’s store. He took his bike outside and met Roy by chance.

“Hey Ren, where are you going?” Roy asked.

“Working!” Ren happily answered.

“Hmmm... As for me, I gotta draw somewhere”

Roy’s stomach grumbled loud, and he giggled,

“Seems that I’ll be your first customer this time”

“Okay, let’s go then” Ren enticed Roy to come by the bakery.

The two went downstairs, lifting their bikes till they reach the ground floor.

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The two biked their way to Manang Abe’s bakery and she welcomed the two,

“Hello Ren and Roy! Glad to see you guys here early in the morning today!”

Roy brought out a ten peso bill and asked for a bag of freshly-baked Kabayan muffins. Manang Abe gladly handed out a bag of Kabayan muffins to Roy. Ren went inside the bakery, then told his friend,

“I’ll be with you guys online at high noon or earlier, okay?”

“Sure Ren! If you’re done, find me at the hill” Roy replied back, then he biked his way to Sinagtala hills.

Ren and Butchoy went to the garage and loaded their bikes with loaves of freshly-baked bread. A new worker went to the garage, and it turned out to be their former customer few days ago.

“Oi Kokoy!” Butchoy greeted their new working buddy.

“You’re our customer last Sunday, right?” Ren curiously asked Kokoy.

“Yup, Ren! My mom eventually allowed me to work during weekends for my extra allowance!” Kokoy gladly answered, as he helped Ren and Butchoy pack breads on their bikes.

Manang Abe came to their garage and she told them,

“You know, it is rare for the kids of your age helping out at work, and because of you Ren, Kokoy also started helping out on our bakery. Kids like you are really rare these days”

She sighed for a moment and she patted the shoulders of her young workers in a friendly manner. Manang Abe left a remark to the three,

“Take care out there boys, and I’ll generously reward your efforts after, okay?”

“Yes ma’m!” the three affirmed, then they left the bakery’s garage to sell bread.

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Henry, wearing navy blue oversized chino shirt, yellow mid-length fitted athletic polyester shorts, woke up with a smile on his face. He wore his square-framed glasses then he asked himself in front of his mirror,

“Hehehe, am I gonna run around with this trap-looking clothing?”

He went to his closet and brought out his blue hoodie with yellow short sleeves, black fitted shirt, and his yellow, blue-streaked, mid-length loose chino shorts.

“There! These look better, unless Hatsumi thinks of having a sleepover, therefore I’m fine with my trap-looking sleepwear” Henry chuckled as he wore his chosen clothes.

After wearing his clothes, he struck a get-go boy’s anime main character pose in front of his mirror and laughed at himself,

“Haha! Yeah, I may look like I dressed up as some main character in a ‘shonen manga’, but I feel like I’m the villian instead who questions a lot, or a whiny, weak-looking character. Probably I like my look as a puny, whiny main character, but after all, I’m the serious one”

Unexpectedly, Doree, one of their maids, was behind his door, listening to his monologue. Doree thought to herself,

“Who is my young master talking to? Probably he’s courting the Japinay cosplayer!”

She giggled for a moment, and finally asked,

“Who are you talking to, Henry?”

Henry opened his door and got surprised by Doree. Henry answered his maid,

“I’m only talking to myself because I find this outfit perfect for me. I might even see Hatsumi outside too, running”

“I knew it! You have your first crush, and that’s the Japinay cosplayer, right?” Doree giggled.

“Yeah, Ate Doree. She’s beautiful, a bit sexy for her age, and she’s cute though she’s shorter” Henry affirmed.

“Regardless of her height, or even her beauty, if her attitude’s beautiful too, you got the perfect girl for you, Henry” Doree advised Henry.

Henry laughed, and blushed for a moment since they talked about his crush, Hatsumi. He went downstairs, hurriedly grabbed his ham sandwich and headed out. Doree giddied afterwards, and she also asked herself,

“When will I have my own papa partner? I envy my masters!”

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Henry arrived at the park and he saw Romeo petting three stray American shorthair cats. Romeo’s stray cats approached Henry and rubbed their heads on Henry’s shins. Romeo smiled and giggled at Henry,

“The cats liked you more than I do!”

“Though you actually looked more of a cat than me, Romeo!” Henry teased Romeo.

While the two were playing and petting the cats, Hatsumi approached the two. She sported her fitted pink t-shirt, and pink mid-length fitted polyester shorts as her athletic clothing. She uttered a cat sound, then the two were distracted by her. The cats approached her and rubbed their heads on her shins, and pink running shoes too.

“Now, the cat girl is here too...” Romeo said to Henry, with their eyes squinted yet looked at their daring cosplaying friend.

Hatsumi carried one of the cats, and stroked her back. The cat she carried simply vocalized,

“Meow meow”

All of a sudden, the cat licked her nose and Hatsumi laughed,

“Romeo, these kids of yours are hungry. Find ‘em some food!”

Hatsumi let go of the cat she carried and wandered around for food, but nothing was found. Romeo grabbed his messenger bag for a bottle of milk, and Henry searched for a styrofoam party plate at the nearby trashcan. The cats looked at the two as the bottle of milk is poured on the party plate. The three stray cats rushed towards their plate of milk and happily drank it. The three watched the cats finish their drink. Less than a minute, the cats emptied the plate and they rubbed their heads again at the shins of the three pre-teens.

“Once we started feeding them, they’ll recognize us... and I can’t afford to take a stray cat home at this rate” Henry mumbled to the two.

“Nah, I’ll keep the cats instead, nya!” Romeo immediately volunteered.

“After all Romeo, you are really a cat person” Hatsumi chuckled at him.

The cats they fed saw a sewer mouse, and they chased it.

“Seems that we fed them an appetizer, and they finally found their main course” Henry snickered at the two.

Romeo noticed the clothing of the two, then he brought out his smartphone, and he asked them,

“Hey, mind if I take a picture of you guys together before we all jog or something?”

The two stood back-to-back and struck poses straight from a certain Japanese animation series. Romeo took a picture of the two with his smartphone, and squealed with glee,

“Squeeee!!! You guys are really cute with those clothes”

The three started jogging around the park for an hour...

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Ren and Butchoy were on the bread-loaded pedal-powered tricycle, while Kokoy another bike with a bread basket on the front. Ren told Kokoy,

“Kokoy, you go around the tenements, while Butchoy and I will go sell some bread on this street. Later we meet at Mang Mario’s, okay?”

“Sure Ren!” Kokoy affirmed, and he went to the tenements.

Ren and Butchoy went to the streets, peddling bread to their regular customers. Kokoy’s mother came outside and praised the two,

“Because of you guys, my son started helping me by earning extra money for two of us. We’ve been receiving no word about my hubby overseas lately, so we have to rely on ourselves for now...”

The two were saddened at the news at first, but they realized that they become Kokoy’s driving force to help his single mother in any good was as possible.

“When was the last time did he talk to you?” Butchoy asked.

Ren playfully pinched Butchoy’s arms and whispered,

“Let’s not dip on other’s lives, Butchoy”

Kokoy’s mother chuckled for a moment, and she shared a bit,

“Probably last month, he said that he’ll be working in California as a taxi driver, and that’s it... I’m worried” then she cried for a while.

The two stepped away from Kokoy’s mother, and Ren reprimanded Butchoy,

“Oh no, we shouldn’t meddle with other’s lives... We made her weep, now what do we do? I hope Kokoy gets back though”

“Sorry, kuya Ren...” Butchoy apologized.

The two continued peddling bread, and were able to sell some more bread in the neighborhood.

Meanwhile in the tenements, Kokoy only have two customers in the ground floor and felt that it was his first unlucky day working in a bakery to peddle bread. While peddling the remaining bread, he thought to himself,

“I thought doing this job is easy... How come Ren maintains his happiness while doing this job?”

Then he ascended to the second floor and continued hollering potential customers. Four mothers from separate tenement blocks caught his attention and approached him for some bread. They paid him nicely, and unexpectedly, a drunk, groggy, fat topless man came outside with a 2 x 4 wooden plank in hand. The groggy man yelled at them,

“That’s too early, your noisy calling disturbed me! YOU LITTLE RUNT!!!”

The man approached Kokoy, and he hurriedly took his bread bike back to the elevator to head down. Unfortunately, the drunkard grabbed Kokoy’s shirt, and cussed at him,

“Where are you going, booger!”

The angered drunkard tried to strike Kokoy’s butt, but it only hit once, and he teased further,

“What the heck! You are now doing all the work? Poor you, but I’ll even make you poo--”

Kokoy’s customers cussed the drunkard altogether, “Imbecile!” and they whacked the drunkard with their brooms and dustpans, until the rest of the residents suppressed the drunkard. One of the residents even wanted the drunkard dropped off, but the tenement-based baranggay officers brought the culprit to their prison for a day or less.

An hour after peddling bread all over Sinagtala, the three young bread-sellers gathered together at Mang Mario’s internet cafe, though Kokoy had a bad start. Kokoy wept at Ren,

“Ren, your job’s too hard for me, I sold less than you guys”

Ren consoled his new weekend coworker and told him,

“Kokoy, it’s fine. At least you tried your best, you’ll get used to it someday”

“I... I’m about to be clubbed to death by a drunkard at the other tenement, Ren. I felt like... I can’t do it anymore” Kokoy admitted.

Ren breathed deeply and helped him calm down. Butchoy suggested,

“Say, why don’t we ask Mang Mario, and my mama, to let him sell bread at his internet cafe instead? At least we won’t be having much trouble with those kind of guys”

“That’ll be a good idea, Butchoy” Ren immediately approved his suggestion.

The three went back to Manang Abe’s bakery for completing their morning jobs...

Offline:\Estoril Park\Kanlaon Family Mansion\”NOAH Core”>

Orion and Marietta were on the boardroom briefing all teams for the afternoon’s first World Boss event. Orion started their planning,

“This afternoon, Eden will send Les-Skaly to the world. We have to come up with different campaigns for those who are unaware about this event”

“Say, we have our MyFriendBook official page, right? Let’s make use of it” Marietta, Orion’s wife, suggested

Charlie Yan raised his hand and supported her idea,

“That’s it! Let’s use MFB and then how do we promote that event?”

“Say, he looks like a tree, right?” Lisanna asked Charlie Yan.

“Yeah, and...” Charlie Yan approved, yet lost his next words for the idea.

“Hmm... How about snuck in an environmental message?” Gregorio laughed.

Marietta heard Gregorio’s message and she raised support of his idea,

“That’s clever! Considering the fact that the Russian designer made our first world boss resemble an angry sentient tree malformed by an alien, we can add this: Don’t wait for Mother Nature’s wrath”

“That’s clever idea, sugar!” Orion affirmed his wife’s idea.

The rest of the development team were baffled at Marietta’s idea, and the texture artist named Marcelino Manalang asked,

“Where do you work, Mrs. Kanlaon?”

“I’m actually one of AGM Network’s Verdegarde senior marketing specialist, primarily aiding their social media team in spreading environmental awareness” Marietta answered to support her previous supportive statement.

The rest of the staff were amazed that they’ve gained ties to one part of the renowned multimedia conglomerate in the Philippines through Marietta Kanlaon’s assistance. Another supporting suggestion is raised by ReiDev Japan’s president live on WeCall, Hirohito Haruyuki in English,

“Kanlaon-sama, we’ve been following your developments for a week and so far we are impressed that we’ve concurred with a small yet growing gaming conglomerate that also partake in environmental affairs. My team thought of an idea, though it’ll open our ways towards micro-transaction”

“Haruyuki-san, just in time! We’re considering that as well, and the 50% of the earnings from that item alone will be donated to a wildlife preservation organization” Orion replied.

“I see, sounds like a decent plan but it seems that your game is just nearly a week old for that” Haruyuki apparently turned down the proposal.

“We have not fully implemented the game’s premium item mall yet, Haruyuki-san. But we’ll do something about it, like killing Les-Skaly with their own abilities without any premium gimmick will reward them with gradually-delivered premium items” Orion rebutted the proposal back.

“Hmmm... universe-wise, it makes sense, as our neighboring planets and friendly aliens are not going to tread on that planet if that first awakened creature is around” Haruyuki accepted his twist for introducing optional premium items.

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Robin woke up early in the morning and he turned on all of his laptops for another session of NOAH before the hyped Les-Skaly event. His main account suddenly received a private message from someone named AnathemaKorlov,

[Hi Leiji, or whatever your unpronounceable name is.

It seems that you are a bad botter to me. Why the hell

do you have to produce different avatars that they

nearly look like your true avatar? You wanna get killed?]

Robin was shocked by the mysterious person’s message. He angrily typed in his response to Anathema’s message,

[Do I care? I don’t even blatantly advertise my service

to the whole world, freak. Ban me if they can. After all,

I have studied some bits of avoiding their banning methods.

Avoid hanging around with rainbow aura people, and arm

my botting units with any form of Hotspot Shielding, or IP Troll]

Moments after, he received another message from the same person,

[I do care about you guys. Apparently, I finally paid my botter

and got this bitch of mine more kickass gear. I’m sure she’ll

pawn Les-Skaly and anyone else later on!]

In a split second, AnathemaKorlov sent another message,

[Don’t join the Les-Skaly event if you’ll go out there

with your automated mooks, okay? I’ll sell you out if

you do!]

Robin Tsai is hesitant, ignored her message and continued playing the game, with bots still active.

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Mikhail, Cody, and Rick hanged around at his bedroom. His room is filled with some anime posters, and a handful of 15cm-tall colorful robot girls occupying one of his bookshelves. The four boys were watching a certain action adventure Japanese animation series about group of adults and teenagers taking down hairy giant creatures donning ancient building-like structures as armor. Cody screamed in dismay after seeing two of his favorite characters fell down from nape of the hairy giant, bearing cathedral-like ruins as its armor.

“Errr... Don’t worry, they’ll live!” Mikhail cheered up Cody.

Just before the two heroines in the show fall on the rocky ground, they hooked themselves back to the legs of the creature. Cody sighed in relief, then Mikhail told him,

“I told you, they’ll live!”

“Where they’ll hit that church-bearing Colossal Titan? On the forehead?” Rick asked, as he sketched his own weapons on his spare notebook while watching ‘Attack on Colossus’.

“Nope, at his throat. The area where less amount of those ruins are present suggest their weak spots” Mikhail answered Rick’s question as if he watched the whole show all day alone.

Suddenly, Cody received a text message from Jeffrey,

[NOAH guys have announced

a rewarding experience after

defeating the big boss today!]

After reading the short text message, Cody informed his friends,

“Once we defeat the boss within this day, they said that they’ll bring something for us!”

“So, let’s all log into the game then?” Mikhail enticed his friends.

“Sure!” Cody and Rick agreed, and the two started packing up and headed to their respective homes.

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At the Sinagtala hilltop, Roy drew a picture of a giant face-armored basilosaurus-like creature accompanied by energy-winged humans fluttering above the scenery filled with dense foliaged quartz-sandstone pillars.

“I wonder if those guys at NOAH will like my drawing... Hope that I’ll be known someday, even though I’ll be misunderstood at first” Roy thought to himself as he shaded the remaining parts of his drawing.

Ren, Butchoy and Kokoy approached Roy and peeked at his drawing.

“Your friend draws well, Ren!” Kokoy praised.

“What animal is that?” Butchoy asked Roy.

“It’s a basilosaurus with some crazy armor on its face, being guided by magical boys and girls” Roy answered the kid’s question.

Ren patted Roy’s shoulders, and he suggested,

“Why don’t you enter that on NOAH? You made the drawing well, and fitting for Brygul!”

“I... I’ll think about it, but they should not turn this guy into a targetable monster. He looks a bit peaceful to be rampaging towns” Roy answered.

Hours later, and it seemed that the entire gaming world is geared up for the first World Boss for NOAH...

Online:\Brygul Planet\Walled Metropolis “Kanpeki Sekai”>

Twelve-thirty in the afternoon, thirty minutes away from the expected arrival of the feared monster, lots of avatars around the world gathered at Kanpeki Sekai’s park. Many of the avatars surrounded a beautiful cat girl non-playable character named ‘Hijinn the Guildmanager’. Arnval asked Hijin to make a guild out of her current party and named it, “BusouShinkishi” since she has Rennin, Roy-kun, Maryann, and the two newcomers in the game named Makabosog, and Masher321.

Butchoy’s avatar is Makabosog. He is a Lv7 pig humanoid wearing a beige dinner jacket, black shoes, and beige top hat. The pig avatar’s weapons are a pair of pistols with extra damages on mechanical and fleshy entities. On the other hand, Kokoy has Masher321. His character is a Lv5 hamster humanoid wearing futuristic steel armor suit and armed with an assault rifle.

Other guilds started summoning vehicles for their usage, some of them have five-man battle tanks with their guild flags. Other avatars brought up animals, bicycles, cars, jeeps, and oddly enough... a giant rubber ducky that can accommodate five persons.

Estorille brought out her motorcycle, ClaraEukrante, AobaAnoaAndrea, and Arnval summoned their Ride Vipers. StrarfShine summoned her power armor and she told the rest of the members,

“As much as possible, we have to avoid accidental firing on other people, or else they’ll get us first!”

“We got you, Strarf!” the members of BusouShinkishi affirmed to her orders.

Unknowingly, one of the game moderators around the populous part of Kanpeki Sekai started handing out starter vehicle packages to first 1500 players. Rennin, Roy-kun, Makabosog, Masher321 and Maryann approached a game moderator named GM-Galmann. GM-Galmann is a middle-aged semi-realistic human avatar with long unkempt spruce green hair, and dressed like a post-apocalyptic armored raider. Many players surrounded him after the four players from BusouShinkishi guild got their first vehicle packages for the world boss event.

The vehicle package contained 10 pieces of Ride Repair T1, 10 pieces of Max-Fill fuel, and a motorcycle with two small-caliber machine guns mounted at the bumper.

The famed Hatsumi’s Livestream Party spawned at the farther north area of Kanpeki Sekai. Hatsumi found another Guildmaster waiting, that also shared a model of Hijinn, but with red hair, and was named Timuu. Hatsumi talked to Guildmaster Timuu, that they’ll sign up to become a guild. Hatsumi’s party members suddenly started deciding for their guild name,

“I vote for DX-LAWS!” Eisen suggested first.

“I call for Raging Hearts!” Crio supported Eisen’s suggestion.

“Hmmm... this one’s a bit punchy though: Lucifuge!” Evyll suggested.

“I go for Nyan!, nya!” Hotaru suggested, and even shamelessly struck a cat pose.

Hatsya finally gave his final say,

“Both of them are punchy and intimidating for a name, but with respect to Hatsumi, I’d rather go for either Raging Hearts or DX-LAWS”

Hatsumi glanced at her male members and heard their guild name suggestion. She finally decided,

“I like Raging Hearts better!”

She raised her left fist to the sky with overflowing cheerful vigor, as if she’ll transform into a butt-kicking magical girl when she called their guild name.

“Raging Hearts... Okay, we’re fine by that!” Eisen approved the name as well.

Unexpectedly, a long-haired girl with glasses, wearing coffee brown short jungle shorts, blue wifebeater shirt with crazy Tron-like linings covering her breasts, approached Hatsya, then she whispered,

“Hatsya, I’m going to return your GM powers someday. For now, I’d like to play with you, young brother, as your level 8 street-fighting sister!”

Eisen, Crio, Evyll, Hotaru, and Hatsumi were surprised at Hatsya,

“Who is that girl?” the members of Raging Hearts exclaimed, and their hands pointed at the girl’s forehead.

“Oh c’mon, she’s Hitomi, actually it’s my sister who plays it” Hatsya casually introduced his sister’s avatar to the group.

Hatsumi added Hitomi to the group and the rest of the boys of Raging Heart stared at Hatsya’s sister. Hitomi gave a gold-bordered plastic card to Hatsumi. The card contained a drawing of a large armored vehicle with four plasma turrets, unloading a biker and an ostrich rider.

“Wait a minute Hitomi, this is... this is a rare mount card! W-where did you get this?” Hatsumi asked Hatsya’s sister about the card.

“Somewhere beyond the Forests maybe. We’ll grind there after we defeat Les-Skaly, okay?” Hitomi answered, and ended it with a promise.

Hitomi ,the flirtatious street-fighter, commanded Hatsumi,

“Summon the vehicle now, and don’t worry about the gas and its recovery items. I have them all, Hatsumi!”

Hitomi winked at her, and hugged her brother tight online. She finally talked to Hatsya,

“Brother, papa allowed me not to be a game mod for a day. Instead, I’ll be like you, a sneaky mouse. You are right about this, Hats. I felt like I wanna wear Hitomi offline!”

“Great, I hope you won’t be baby-sitting me much here everytime we play huh?” Henry talked back.

“I’ll always warp right beside you just in case you’re weak to grind, brother!” Hitomi promised.

While waiting for the Les-Skaly update, RavenSythe came back, but with another weapon strapped at his back, and it is a blood red dragon-ornated M110 semi-automatic sniper rifle. His little pair of handguns were kept at his chest holster, and he has a pair of glossy black semi-automatic pistols with guide rod lasers below the barrels. RavenSythe flamboyantly asked Hatsumi,

“Whoa there, Hatsumi. Who’s that another chick on your team?”

“She’s Hitomi, a street-fighter, and she’s Hatsya’s older sister” Hatsumi introduced the new girl in question to her live-stream cameraman slash gunner, RavenSythe.

The flamboyant black-dressed gunner coldly stared at Eisen and Hatsya.

“Who the heck are these boys again, princess?” RavenSythe arrogantly inquired Hatsumi again.

Eisen aggressively pointed his [Dark] Ox Tongue spear at RavenSythe’s throat, while he has both of his new pistols aimed at Eisen’s forehead and crotch. Hitomi suddenly grabbed Hatsya’s five-shooter pistol and threatened the two,

“Stop fighting you two, or I’ll PK you both here, permanently!”

“Oh really, how?” RavenSythe snidely asked Hitomi, with his other pistol aimed at her chest.

Skrillegrillah, the rusty brown spiky robot, was about to go to the northern gate of the city until he saw the three trying to kill each other. The brown spiky robot brought out his M110-like sniper rifle and he began shooting the knees of the black-dressed combatants. Eisen’s and RavenSythe’s knees were hit by Skrillegrillah, and they both sat down, crying in pain. The spiky robot gunner approached his victims and reprimanded them altogether,

“Instead of you guys attempting to beat the crap of each other, why not we all go and hit Les-Skaly now! I wasted two of my anti-armor bullets on you guys, damn you!”

Beside Skrillegrillah, the Raging Hearts guild’s vehicle summoning completed within 25 seconds.

“Mind if Ougon-kun, and I be your guests for today’s raid too?” Skrillegrillah asked Hatsumi.

“Sure! The more, the better as they say!” Hatsumi happily permitted the brown sniper robot.

Evyll healed his two guild members’ injuries and helped them to go inside the armored vehicle named “D-Hog”. Hitomi volunteered as the driver of the D-Hog. Eisen, Crio, and RavenSythe were at the vehicle’s mounted gun turrets. Evyll became the team’s medic, Hotaru, Hatsya, and Hatsumi were passengers of the D-Hog for now. Skrillegrillah is fine not to be in the team vehicle for he is complacent with his flight unit, and of course he’s a medium-sized military robot.